Which was your favourite? Add a comment to this blog and let's discuss at our meeting on Thursday 24th September. Here's the list:
| 2005 | |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy |
| Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka |
| Toast | Nigel Slater |
| Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy |
| 2006 | |
| Diary of an Ordinary Woman | Margaret Forster |
| Close Range | Annie Proulx |
| The Flame Trees of Thika | Elspeth Huxley |
| The End of the Affair | Graham Greene |
| Gentlemen and Players | Joanne Harris |
| 2007 | |
| The Island | Victoria Hislop |
| The Edible Woman | Margaret Attwood |
| The Time Traveler’s Wife | Audrey Niffenegger |
| The Other Boleyn Girl | Phillippa Gregory |
| 2008 | |
| Offshore | Penelope Fitzgerald |
| A Thousand Splendid Suns | Khaled Hosseini |
| Mr Pip | Lloyd Jones |
| The Mill on the Floss | George Eliot |
| The Sisterhood | Emily Barr |
| Notes from an Exhibition | by Patrick Gale |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry |
| 2009 | |
| Remember Babylon | David Malouf |
| The Bolter | Frances Osborne |
| The Sandcastle | Iris Murdoch |
| Crossed Wires | Rosy Thornton |
| A Beginners Guide to Acting English | Shappi Khorsandi |
| 2010 | |
| The Boy in the Bush | DH Lawrence (and M.L. (Mollie Skinner) |
| Chains | Laurie Halse Anderson |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen |
| Suite Francais | Irene Nemirovsky |
| Pompeii | Robert Harris |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Stieg Larsson |
| The White Woman on the Green Bicycle | Monique Roffey |
| 2011 | |
| The Concert Ticket | Olga Grushin |
| Three Cups of Tea | Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin |
| Cider with Rosie | Laurie Lee |
| Amsterdam | Ian McEwan |
| Pigeon English | Stephen Kelman |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzan |
| 2012 | |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| The Red House | Mark Haddon |
| When God was a Rabbit | Sarah Winman |
| Scoop | Evelyn Waugh |
| The Boy with the Top Knot | Sathnam Sanghera |
| 2013 | |
| A Young Doctor's Notebook | Mikhail Bulgakov |
| Pure | Andrew Miller |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel |
| Fame is the Spur | Howard Spring |
| Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) | Jerome K Jerome |
| The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared | Jonas Jonasson |
| 2014 | |
| Letters from Skye | Jessica Brockmole |
| Private Peaceful | Michael Morpurgo |
| Knots & Crosses | Ian Rankin |
| The Letter Bearer | Robert Allison |
| Speed of Dark | Elizabeth Moon |
| Hard Times | Charles Dickens |
| 2015 | |
| The Painter of Signs | R.K. Narayan |
| Every Day is for the Thief | Teju Cole |
| Sweet Tooth | Ian McEwan |
| Fried Green Tomatoes at The Whistle Stop Café | Fannie Flagg |
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